NYC Restaurants Slash Staff over Minimum Wage
New York City restaurants, feeling the pinch of trying to make ends meet, are slashing their staff after a state law that took effect at the end of 2018 is mandating restaurants with 11 or more workers to pay a $15 an hour minimum wage.
NYC Restaurants Slash Staff over Minimum Wage

Carl Bernstein: ‘Evidence Suggests’ Trump Is Putin’s ‘Pawn’
Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” network political analyst and veteran reporter Carl Bernstein accused President Donald Trump of being the “pawn” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bernstein said, “This president has at every turn tried to stiff, demean, and undermine and bury the Mueller investigation. And he continues to do so. The real question, two real questions; one, Director Clapper got to the question ofbeing a pawn. The evidence suggests, indeed, Trump is, has been a pawn of the Russians, of Putin. And the tbig question is witting, unwitting, half witting? Mueller, perhaps, will tell us in his narrative which it is. But it seems pretty definite.” He added, “There are many lawyers in the joint defense agreement who are representing clients in the White House who agree that the president is a pawn of Putin. Why has he lied? That’s what they ask. Why has he lied at every turn? Why have members of his family lied at every turn? Why have his aides Flynn, Manafort, Gates, on down the line originally lied whenever they’re asked about Russia? And also the question of his business interests which Mueller has been looking at and which I suspect are going to be key
Carl Bernstein: ‘Evidence Suggests’ Trump Is Putin’s ‘Pawn’

Matthews: Sometimes I Think Trump Is ‘Going to Just Start Talking to Us in Russian’
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews stated that he sometimes thinks we’re near a point where President Trump is “going to just start talking to us in Russian,” like the Russian agent in the film “No Way Out.” Matthews said, “If you’re accused of being a foreign agent against this country, your reaction would be, I would think, personal. And you would begin to say, let me explain to people who are actually listening to me, I was trying to cut a deal with the Russians. I wasn’t going to be knee-jerk, restarting the Cold War. … But his defense has been, screw you. His defense has been to trash the people going after him, including all kinds of government bureaucrats and good FBI agents. He doesn’t act in a way, it seems to me…most normal people do if they’re accused.” Matthews added, “There was a great movie many years ago called ‘No Way Out’ with Kevin Costner. And at the end of the movie, he turns out to be the agent. He’s speaking in fluent Russian. I sometimes think we’re getting near that. You know, he’s going to just start talking to us in Russian, yelling at
Matthews: Sometimes I Think Trump Is ‘Going to Just Start Talking to Us in Russian’

ABC/WaPo Poll: Support for Border Wall Soars Among Swing Voters
President Trump’s proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border has soared in popularity with American voters across the board, as he battles a split GOP-Democrat Congress to secure funding for the barrier.
ABC/WaPo Poll: Support for Border Wall Soars Among Swing Voters